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Citation Style 1 templates

{{Cite arXiv}}	arXiv preprint
{{Cite AV media}}	audio and visual
{{Cite AV media notes}}	audio and visual liner notes
{{Cite book}}	books
{{Cite conference}}	conference papers
{{Cite DVD notes}}	DVD liner notes
{{Cite encyclopedia}}	edited collections
{{Cite episode}}	radio or television episodes
{{Cite interview}}	interviews
{{Cite journal}}	magazines, journals, academic papers
{{Cite mailing list}}	public mailing lists
{{Cite map}}	maps
{{Cite news}}	news articles
{{Cite newsgroup}}	online newsgroups
{{Cite podcast}}	audio or video podcast
{{Cite press release}}	press releases
{{Cite report}}	reports
{{Cite serial}}	audio or video serials
{{Cite sign}}	signs, plaques
{{Cite speech}}	speeches
{{Cite techreport}}	technical reports
{{Cite thesis}}	theses
{{Cite web}}	any resource accessible through a URL
See also:
Meta-templates • Specific-source templates

This Citation Style 1 template is used to create citations for preprints at the arXiv. It links to the abstract at http://www.arxiv.org/abs/eprint.

This template and its documentation have been imported from the English Wikipedia. Please refer to the original pages (w:Template:Cite_arXiv, w:Template:Cite_arXiv/doc) in case of inconsistencies.

Usage

To use the template, you need only specify the arxiv or eprint parameter. Once you save the page, Citation bot will detect the citation and complete it automatically.

Common parameters, horizontal format

{{cite arXiv |last= |first= |author-link= |eprint= |title= |class= |date= }}

• arxiv or eprint (Mandatory): arXiv/Eprint identifier, without any "arXiv:" prefix. Prior to April 2007, the identifiers included a classification, an optional two-letter subdivision, and a 7-digit YYMMNNN year, month, and sequence number of submission in that category. E.g. gr-qc/0610068 or math.GT/0309136. After April 2007, the format was changed to a simple YYMM.NNNN. Starting in January 2015, the identifier was changed to be 5 digits: YYMM.NNNNN.
• class: arXiv classification, e.g. hep-th. Optional. To be used only with new-style (2007 and later) eprint identifiers that do not include the classification.
• title: Title of the cited paper.

The template uses the style of {{cite journal}}. Once a paper is accepted in a peer-reviewed journal, it is recommended to use one of those templates, as the peer-reviewed status of the article is important, while preserving the arXiv link in order to guarantee open access to the previous version of the article. To preserve the arXiv link, add e.g. |arxiv=gr-qc/0610068 or |arxiv=math.GT/0309136 or |arxiv=YYMM.NNNN (following the above examples) to the {{citation}} or {{cite journal}} templates.

Parameters

Deprecated

The following parameters are deprecated. Their use will place the page into Category:Pages containing cite templates with deprecated parameters:

• {{xtd|coauthor · coauthors}}: Use {{bxt|last#}} / {{bxt|first#}} or {{bxt|author}} or {{bxt|authors}}
• {{xtd|Ref}}: Use {{bxt|ref}}

Description

Authors

• last: Surname of author. Do not wikilink—use author-link instead. For corporate authors, simply use last to include the same format as the source. Aliases: last1, surname, surname1, author, author1.
  • first: Given or first names of author, including title(s); for example: Firstname Middlename or Firstname M. or Dr. Firstname M., Sr. Do not wikilink—use author-link instead. Aliases: first1, given, given1. Requires last; first name will not display if last is empty.
  • OR: for multiple authors, use last1, first1 through lastn, firstn where n is any consecutive number for an unlimited number of authors (each firstn requires a corresponding lastn). {{Crossref|See the display parameters to change how many authors are displayed.}} Aliases: surname1, given1 through surnamen, givenn, or author1 through authorn. For an individual author plus an institutional author, you can use |first1=...|last1=...|author2=....
  • author-link: Title of existing Wikipedia article about the author—not the author's website; do not wikilink. Aliases: author-link1, authorlink, authorlink1, author1-link, author1link.
  • OR: for multiple authors, use author-link1 through author-linkn. Aliases: authorlink1 through authorlinkn, or author1-link through authorn-link, or author1link through authornlink.
  • name-list-format: displays authors and editors in Vancouver style when set to vanc and when the list uses last/first parameters for the name list(s)
• vauthors: comma separated list of author names in Vancouver style; enclose corporate or institutional author names in doubled parentheses:

  |vauthors=Smythe JB, ((Megabux Corporation))

  • author-link and author-mask may be used for the individual names in |vauthors= as described above
• authors: Free-form list of author names; not an alias of last
• translator-last: Surname of translator. Do not wikilink—use translator-link instead. Aliases: translator1, translator1-last, translator-last1.
  • translator-first: Given or first names of translator. Do not wikilink—use translator-link instead. Aliases: translator-first, translator1-first, translator-first1.
  • OR: for multiple translators, use translator-last1, translator-first1 through translator-lastn, translator-firstn where n is any consecutive number for an unlimited number of translators (each translator-firstn requires a corresponding translator-lastn). Aliases: translator1-last, translator1-first through translatorn-last, translatorn-first, or translator1 through translatorn.
  • translator-link: Title of existing Wikipedia article about the translator—not the translator's website; do not wikilink. Aliases: translator-link1, translator1-link.
  • OR: for multiple translators, use translator-link1 through translator-linkn. Aliases: translator1-link through translatorn-link.

When using {{sfnote|lc=y}} or {{paren|lc=y}} styles with templates, do not use multiple names in one field or else the anchor will not match the inline link.

Date

• date: Date of source being referenced. Can be full date (day, month, and year) or partial date (month and year, season and year, or year). Use same format as other publication dates in the citations. Required when year is used to disambiguate {{sfn}} links to multiple-work citations by the same author in the same year.^[more] Do not wikilink. Displays after the authors and is enclosed in parentheses. If there is no author, then displays after publisher. Template:Crossref

For approximate year, precede with "c. ", like this: |date=c. 1900.

For no date, or "undated", add as |date=n.d.

• year: Year of source being referenced. Use of |date= is recommended unless all of the following conditions are met:

1. The template uses |ref=harv, or the template is {{citation}}, or |mode=cs2
2. The |date= format is YYYY-MM-DD.
3. The citation requires a CITEREF disambiguator.

• orig-year: Original publication year; displays after the date or year. For clarity, please supply specifics. For example: |orig-year=First published 1859 or |orig-year=Composed 1904.

Title

• title: Title of source. Displays in quotes. If script-title is defined, title holds romanized transliteration of title in script-title.
  • script-title: Original title for languages that do not use a Latin-based alphabet (Arabic, Chinese, Hebrew, Japanese, etc); not italicized, follows italicized transliteration defined in title. May be prefixed with an ISO 639-1 two-character code to help browsers properly display the script:

    ... |title=Tōkyō tawā |script-title=ja:東京タワー |trans-title=Tokyo Tower ...

  • trans-title: English translation of the title if the source cited is in a foreign language. Displays in square brackets after title; if url is defined, then trans-title is included in the link. Use of the language parameter is recommended.

Titles containing certain characters will display and link incorrectly unless those characters are encoded.

newline	[	]	|
space	[	]	|
	{{bracket|text}}		{{!}} – Template:Crossref

• When the title you are citing contains quotations marks or apostrophes at the beginning, end or both, you can use   to place a separation between that punctuation and the quotation marks this template automatically provides around the title, to avoid a non-ideal display such as '''.

• For example instead of title='name' which will display on many browsers with the quotation marks surrounding it as '''name''', use |title= 'name' , which will display as " 'name' ".
• title-link: Title of existing Wikipedia article about the source named in title – do not use a web address; do not wikilink. Alias: titlelink.

• language: The language in which the source is written. Displays in parentheses with "in" before the language name or names. Use the full language name or ISO 639-1 code. When the source uses more than one language, list them individually, separated by commas, e.g. |language=French, German. The use of language names or language codes recognized by Wikimedia adds the page to the appropriate subcategory of CS1 foreign language sources; do not use templates or wikilinks. Note: When the language is "English" (or "en"), no language is displayed in the citation.

TemplateData

This is the TemplateData for this template used by TemplateWizard, VisualEditor and other tools.

TemplateData for Cite arXiv

Formats a citation to a paper with an arXiv id

Template parameters[Edit template data]

This template prefers inline formatting of parameters.

Parameter		Description	Type	Status
arXiv	arxiv eprint	arXiv identifier without the "arXiv:" prefix; can include version number Example 1612.00008v1	String	required
arXiv class	class	arXiv classification, for post-2007 ids	String	optional
Version	version	arXiv version	String	deprecated
Author	author author1	Complete name of the first author	String	optional
First name	first first1 given given1	First name of first author	String	suggested
Last name	last last1 surname surname1	Last name of first author	String	suggested
Author 2's first name	first2 given2	First name of second author	String	optional
Author 2's last name	last2 surname2	Last name of second author	String	optional
Author 2	author2	Full name of second author	String	optional
Author's article	author-link author-link1 authorlink authorlink1 author1-link author1link.	Title of the Wikipedia article about the first author	Page name	optional
Author 2's article	author-link2 authorlink2 author2-link author2link	Title of Wikipedia article about the second author	Page name	optional
Authors	authors	Full list of all authors	String	optional
Co-authors	coauthors	Names of co-authors	String	deprecated
Title	title	Title of the paper cited	String	suggested
Translator	translator translator1	Full name of first translator	String	optional
Translator's last name	translator-last translator1-last translator-last1	Translator's last name	String	optional
Translator's first name	translator-first translator1-first translator-first1	Translator's first name	String	optional
Translator's article	translator-link translator-link1 translator1-link	Title of Wikipedia article of the (first) translator	Page name	optional
Translator 2's First name	translator-first2 translator2-first	Translator 2's First name	String	optional
Translator 2's last name	translator-last2 translator2-last	Translator 2's last name	String	optional
Translator 2	translator2	Full name of second translator	String	optional
Translator 2's article	translator-link2 translator2-link	Title of WIkipedia article about second translator	Page name	optional
collaboration	collaboration	Name of a group of authors, in addition to the ones listed in the Author parameters	String	optional
Date	date	Date of the source being cited. Use n.d. for no date, and c. for inexact dated	String	optional
Original publication year	orig-year origyear	Original publication year, which displays after the main date. Be specific Example First published 1859	String	optional
Date format for publication dates	df	Either ymd (Year-Month-Day), dmy (Day-Month-Year), or mdy (Month-Day-Year) add -all at end to also affect access and archive dates Example dmy	String	optional
Foreign-script title	script-title	Title of work in original non-latin script. May be prefixed with language code and a colon Example ja:東京タワー	String	optional
Translated title	trans-title	English translation of title	String	optional
Article about title	title-link	Wikipedia article that the title is linked to	Page name	optional
Language(s)	language	Language(s) the source is written in. Seperate by commas, and do not include 'and'	String	optional

External links

• Understanding the arXiv identifier

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